Baby name
CLASSIC
🇦🇷 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 Mark
/mark/
Meaning
“Of Mars, warlike”
English reduction of Marcus, meaning related to Mars, straightforward and strong, popular across Protestant-majority English-speaking regions.
Nicknames
none
Vibe
strongplayfultimeless
How it ages.
Mark peaked in the 1950s-70s in English-speaking nations and has declined gradually since, now seen as established classic.
The cultural moment.
North America experienced Mark in top 10 from 1950s through 1990s, then steady decline offset by cultural references like Mark Zuckerberg.